"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
— Thoreau

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no frigate like a good book to take us to lands away."
— Emily Dickinson

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I dwell in possibility…"
— Emily Dickinson

"Judge tenderly of me."
— Emily Dickinson

"They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings."
— Emily Dickinson

"I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense."
— Emily Dickinson

"Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye, much sense the starkest madness..."
— Emily Dickinson

"Till I loved I never lived."
— Emily Dickinson

"The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."
— Henry David Thoreau

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
— Henry David Thoreau